Take this all with a grain of salt for the moment, though Collider reports that the Batman v. Superman director has undertaken several meetings with the premium cable channel, stressing the preliminary nature of the meetings, and uncertain focus of any Watchmen adaptation.

The twelve-part comic series struggled to fit in to Snyder’s lengthy 2009 rendition as is, leaving it unclear if an HBO Watchmen TV series would serve as a straight adaptation / miniseries, re-imagining, sequel, prequel or what.